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Sparta, Georgia - The small town
setting for the police drama IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT/NBC/1988-94.
The series followed the relationship of Virgil Tibbs (Howard
Rollins), a black Philadelphia detective who transferred back to his
hometown of Sparta, Mississippi to work with a gruff-but-fair white
police chief named Bill Gillespie (Carroll O'Connor).
Other officers on duty in the Sparta Police Department included:
- Alan Autry as Sgt. V. L. 'Bubba' Skinner
- David Hart as Officer Parker Williams
- Hugh O'Connor as Sgt. Lonnie Jamison
- Geoffrey Thorne as Sgt. Wilson Sweet
- Crystal R. Fox as Officer Luann Corbin
- Harvey E. Lee Jr. as Officer Covey
- Barbara Lee-Belmonte as Deputy Christine Surillo
- Karen Carlson as Sarah Hallisey
- C.C. Taylor as Officer Peake
- Mark Johnson as Officer Everett
- Geoff McKnight as Deputy Farell
TRIVIA NOTE:
The series was based on the characters in the novel written by John
Ball and the Oscar®-winning feature film In the Heat of the Night
(1967) starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. Sidney Poitier later
reprised his role of Virgil Tibbs in the motion pictures They
Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970), and The Organization
(1971).
The TV series was filmed on location in the towns of Hammond,
Louisiana and in Covington, Georgia. However, the town of Sparta,
Illinois is where the real story behind the story "In Heat of the
Night" took place (changed to Sparta, Mississippi for the motion
picture).
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